Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-09-07
WHITE SULPHUR.
"Poy1IzINg THE DEcAYIEe SUN
xERp-rHE FALL SEASON.
Tradition Of yates Mountain "-salc OF
the white-"Dead Beats"-Gover-
nor Leo and Mr.. Curry.

palcn.
WHITE SULPHUR SPRING, w, Va,
September 8, 1887.
One of the hardest things in the
world TO do is so to poetize the decay
ing summer and the approaching fall as
to make folks stay in the mountains
when their businesses or their purses
command their presence at hOme.
Vain are the verses which picture the
rich coloring that nature puts on as the
nights grow cool and the mornings
frosty. The people have long resisted
such appeals but they can't resist
fashion, and the growing custom OF the
well-to- do is to spend september and
much OF October in the mountains. So
you find that while many departed du-
ring the cold.spell panic, others have
come, and hundreds who came in July
will not leave until October. These
get the choicest benefits of the summer
resorts, and have all the attentions that
the most exacting can demand, and
when they return to their home it is
not to meet hot weather, but to ex-
change the mellow mountain air for
the tranquil Indian summer, which
fourishes more distinctly in East Vir-
ginia than in this transmontane region.
WILL IT BE SOLD ?
The White is TO be sold on the 10Th.
1t is expected that it will bring some
where between 100000 and 100000,
which will not begin to pay off the
debts, but it will be long before it will
command a larger sum. Meanwhile,
the buildings are beginning to show
the need Of more repairs than the court
allows Major Eakle TO put on them.
Mr.. W. A. Stuart, of Saltyille. holds
most Of the first mortgage bonds, but |
hear that he has no wish to become the
purchaser of the property unless it
should be indispensable for the protec-
ton OF his own interests.
Two acres of land at the depot, upon
which the short-lived Peyton House de
stroyed by fire. stood, will be sold after
the Springs tract is auctioned off.
WOMAN NOT A GIRL.
Hates mountain, which looms up so
grandly east of the White, is not, but
should be part of this property.
With paths and roads leading to its
summit it would become a great at
traction. At its top there are more
than hundred acres of level land,
some of it well shaded, and could be
made charming spot tor picnic par
ties. Colonel II. Coalter Cabell, Of
Richmond, is part owner Of this noun
tain.
! thought until recently that the
story of how Hates mountain got to
be so named, was wholly mythical but
recently l had conversation with
citizen who is eighty-six years old, and
who has been living in this vicinity
since 1886. The tradition as he re-
ceived it-and when it came to his ears
IT WAS not hoary with antiquity as
now-is that a woman fleeing from
the Indians found safe refuge there
for six days. One of her cows followed
her and afforded her sustenance. Bat
Judge from his story that Kate was
neither young nor pretty but no mat
ter now-in the legends OF the mona
tains she lives, and will ever live
"A rirlish shape that clips the bud
In lines Of unspOiled symmetry"
"DEAD BEATS.
1t is very rare that the White be-
comes a subject of practice on the part
of dead beats"
1t would seem to be easy enough for
any evil-minded person to slip out of
the back door OF "A cottage and take
train and be gone, board-bill free. But
it is very rare that any such thing hap
pens-a circumstance that speaks vOlu-
minously and vigorously for the run OF
custom with which these springs is
blessed. And though there are hun
dreds of servants, and, during the sea
son, thousands of strangers here, rob
berries, though not absolutely unknown,
are of great rarity that, too, when lsss
precaution is taken by visitors for the
safety of their property than at any
place | ever knew.
Still the White has habits experience.
Two Young men this season came, run
into debt at the bar, at the cigarstand.
ut the shoemaker's, &c, and then
sneaking their baggage from their cot
tage, proceeded to parts unknown.
Before they left their character had
come to lie suspected, and they got off
lust in the nick of time to avoid un
plCasantness.
A PEDESTRIAN.
Mr.. Howard Il. Bayne, who was
formerly of Richmond, now practicing
law in New York, is summering here.
In 1879 he and Mr.. Peyton Hoge
made tour of Virginia on foot, walk
ing several hundred miles. Their
Journey they described in letters pub
lished in the Dispatch, written first by
one and then by the other, and signed
alternately "Ego" and "Aitcr."
Mr.. Bayne is still great walker,
though he doesn't try to beat his 70
record.
HAT-FEvER.
Judge Emory Speer. of the United
States Court in Georgia, has been here
some weeks He said to me yesterday
that he had greatly improved since his
arrival, and, he added You ought to
publish this place as sanltdriun Tor
hay-iever."
The Judge, who is quick-moving,
brieht.faced, clean shaved man of
forty, has been a great sufferer from
hay-fever, and has found as much com
fort here as he did in some other
places of 6,000 feet altitude.
used to think that this troublesome
disease was altogether unknown in oar
section of the State. and the truth is,
our people did not adopt it until it had
been in fashion elsewhere for twenty
five or thirty years, and even now it is
but little known in Virginia east of the
Blue Ridge. A few Richmond people
have it; but most Of them, know,
contracted it outside Of The State.
Medical authorities differ as to the
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